how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

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how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

i don't know SHIT about the national anthem. i think i know the first part. feel free to type your country's national anthem if you know WHAT it is.

"oh say can you see by the dawnzerley light. what so proudly we hail. as the twlights that's streaming. through bright stripes and bright stars. through the perilless fight. something something something something. and the rockets will blaze. that are bursting in air. gave proof through the night. that our flag was still there. oh save us that star spangler banner yet wave. for the land of the free and the home of the brave."

okay, i tried.

one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by ixthrock

Oh say can you see
by the dawn's early light
what so proudly we hailed
at the twilight's last gleaming.

whose broad stripes and bright stars
through the perilous fight
o'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming

and the rockets red glare,
the bombs bursting in air
gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there.

oh say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave? O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave.

At least that's what I sing, somewhere, at the top of my lungs, at least once a year.
and I don't even particularly jibe with nationalistic fervor.

Now, who knows the words to "To Anachreon?"

that looks and sounds about right.

well, you are probably one of the few hundred americans that knows the national anthem. it's funny how folks crack on singers when they forget lines in the national anthem when they themselves don't know it.

and what's anachreon? that sounds like some play or something on broadway.

one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by thatgirl

Yeah, I can sing along to 'O Canada.' We had to sing ours every morning up until high school, in elementary school it was required and sometimes we'd sing it in French. In HS we were only expected to stand in silence. lol

Anyway, the American anthem seems kind of difficult to remember. Ours is pretty easy.

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

I expect DigitalFudge to post his idol's 'National Anthem' any time in this thread

@OP: Yes, though I jumble between the verses sometimes. Every kid in my country are obliged to have a national commemoration ceremony [almost] every Monday during their 12 years in school, so we have to sing the anthem almost every week with a loud voice. Like it or not, most of us remember the lyrics quite accurately. Oh what imprinting can do to us.

come now, my child. if we were planning to harm you, do you think
we'd be lurking here beside the path in the darkest part of the forest?

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by G-Lexington

Only the first verse.

Lex

As do I, but then our national anthem (purportedly the oldest in the world) is so long teachers used to punish their pupils by having them copy all of the verses in detention (think Bart Simpson without the repetition).

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by thatgirl

I laughed so hard at this for some reason...

But it also sounds like if I were there, I'd find it really endearing.

It's very prototypical American. It started after 9/11, tying it into "these colors don't run" and "you don't bully America". OK, the first three or six months after the attacks, understandable. It's been over a decade. You're not scaring any terrorists in the building who snuck in to watch a lacrosse match.

And if memory serves, you'd have a hard time finding somebody in Spain who knows the lyrics to their national anthem...because it has no official lyrics.

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by G-Lexington

It's very prototypical American. It started after 9/11, tying it into "these colors don't run" and "you don't bully America". OK, the first three or six months after the attacks, understandable. It's been over a decade. You're not scaring any terrorists in the building who snuck in to watch a lacrosse match.

Lex

That's true. The "THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE!" is part of the underdog mentality we've never outgrown since the days as a little bastard child of England, imho.

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Originally Posted by umjreon88

Remembered it like the back of my hand, how can I forget? I sang it for 10 years of my life!

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

I can sing both the American and Canadian national anthems in English.

You get used to hearing both of them, living in Rochester. Our local sports teams frequently play Canadian teams in baseball, hockey, soccer, and lacrosse.
The Rochester Red Wings AAA Baseball team frequently played the Ottawa Lynx (sadly, now defunct).
The Rochester Amerks AHL hockey team frequently plays teams such as the Hamilton Bulldogs, the Toronto Marlies, and the Abbotsford Heat.

And besides, what's PeTe going to think of me if I can't sing his country's anthem?

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by xbuzzerx

It's as if I am one of your people now! /inspired.

Thank you so much! Yeah, we are a pretty young nation, so the anthem reflects our status as a little island nation with big aspirations - got there eventually. But what I'm actually proud of is the diversity.

"... You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you ..." - Colours of the Wind by Vanessa Williams

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

In olden times one of our local stations played a version with several stanzas every night at sign-off. Besides the first, here's the few lines I can retrieve from memory: ... stand between our loved ones and the war's desolation ... praise the power that has made and preserved us a nation ... Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just and this be our motto: In God is our trust And the star spangled banner in freedom yet shall wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave Another station played the Canadian national anthem, but I can't recite even the first verse off the top of my head.

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

I can sing it, mostly in key, and can of course write it out. But, as has been pointed out, only the first verse. Nobody ever uses the other three, so there's never been an opportunity or necessity to learn them. However, if you're curious:

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

I especially like "the foe's haughty host." I visualize a thousand Beau Brummels standing around staring at you with quizzing-glasses.

(Of course, that's not Beau Brummel... it's Sir Percival Blakeney as played by Anthony Andrews in The Scarlet Pimpernel... but you get the idea).

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

The Star Spangled Banner

In 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem, Defense of Fort McHenry. The poem was later put to the tune of (John Stafford Smith's song) The Anacreontic Song, modified somewhat, and retitled The Star Spangled Banner. Congress proclaimed The Star Spangled Banner the U.S. National Anthem in 1931.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Nope. It's really not that important in everyday life. The only time I've ever heard it was at the beginning of my high school's assemblies. The guys would always scream as loud as they could during the line "for the land of the free" as if that made them extra patriotic or something.

Originally Posted by refujiunderground

...it's funny how folks crack on singers when they forget lines in the national anthem when they themselves don't know it.

But that's different. Those singers are being payed to sing the song. They should know the lyrics to the song they're being payed to sing.

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by refujiunderground

and what's anachreon? that sounds like some play or something on broadway.

Originally Posted by wikipedia entry for the star spangled banner

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States.

so i misspelled anacreon, and apparently there were lots of different versions of it, and i didn't know the star bangled spanner had other verses. the things ye learn.

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Hey, if some country has a National Anthem which is an instrumental tune only without words, then I know the ENTIRE lyrics to it, even if it's from some place that nobody thinks about much, such as The Seychelles or something...

"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking." -The Scarecrow, THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939

Boss, to Sue: "Sorry, we have to downsize, and I need to lay you and Jack off." Sue to boss: "Can you just jack off? I feel like shit today."

Make, for a man, a fire - and he'll be warm for a few hours. Set a man afire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Mexicans are pissed off about Trump's wall but, oh...they'll get over it.

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

I certainly know the words to our National Anthem and I sing it loudly and proudly whenever the occasion demands it. I loved the way it was done at the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympics ... I remember watching it live on the telly and I was bawling my eyes out so much that I couldn't sing it! Julie Anthony is THE VOICE of Advance Australia Fair and noone sings it better than she does!

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

We had to learn the then new .zw one written in Shona when it launched back when I was about 6 in 1982 or 1983 so we could sing it in assembly. I assumed this was normal and, as a result, I learned the then .za one when we moved down south in 1986.

We got a new .za one after 1994, but since I'm no longer at school (graduated in 1993) and not exposed to it that often, I don't know it very well. It is an abortion - 4 verses, 2 of which are the new one in isiXhosa and isiZulu (and it's not new, it's a traditional African prayer), and 2 of which are verse 3 and 4 of the old one in Afrikaans and English. We try to keep everyone happy in a very boring and PC way.

High time for a proper new one, I should wager. It's only been 19 years since The Troubles started. And a little google-stomping reveals that the Zimbabweans got themselves a new one written specially in 1994, replacing Ishe Komborera (the one I learned in 1983).

Re: how many of you guys know your national anthem WORD from WORD where you can say and write it?

Originally Posted by ronboy

I can sing both the American and Canadian national anthems in English.

You get used to hearing both of them, living in Rochester. Our local sports teams frequently play Canadian teams in baseball, hockey, soccer, and lacrosse.
The Rochester Red Wings AAA Baseball team frequently played the Ottawa Lynx (sadly, now defunct).
The Rochester Amerks AHL hockey team frequently plays teams such as the Hamilton Bulldogs, the Toronto Marlies, and the Abbotsford Heat.

And besides, what's PeTe going to think of me if I can't sing his country's anthem?